...Jacques Aumont; Jill Forbes Copyright © 1982 by Camera Obscura 1982 This is Not a Textual Analysis (Godard’s La Chinoise) Jacques Aumont Let us consider a question which is usually treated as rhetorical: what allows our particular kind of critical discourse to exist...

...R.S. Hamilton Alfred Guzzetti, Two or Three things I Know about Her: Analysis of a Film by Godard (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1981) Copyright © 1982 by Camera Obscura 1982 Two or Three Things I Know about Her: Analysis of a Film by Godavd R .S. Hamilton...

...), p. 72. Enclitic International Conference on the Textual Analysis of Film D.N. Rodowick In order to do justice to the Enclitic Conference on Textual Analysis (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; May 15-17, 1981),it is nec- essary to understand that in many respects...

...Dana Polan ij I Complexity and Contradiction in Mass-Culture Analysis: On len Ang's Watching Dallas (New York: Methuen, 1985) Dana Polan There seem to be two very different books in len Ang's Watching Dallas. One is an open study of the contradictions...

...Jamie Feldman Tom Kalin, Viruses as Nationalism, 1989 Gallo, Montagnier, and the Debate Over HIV: A Narrative Analysis Jamie Feldman Introduction and Theory The title of this article immediately raises two important questions: why look at the Gallo-Montagnier dispute at all...

...Lynne Kirby Linda Williams (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981) © 1984 by Camera Obscura 1984 L'Age d'Or (Luis Bunuel, 1930) Book Reviews Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film by Linda WiUzams (Urbana: University of Iiiinois Press, 1981) Lynne...

... more appropriate critical tools and terms to acknowledge black artistic innovations. This essay takes up and reiterates that call, drawing attention to the problems of film interpretation that attend to a version of historical analysis without an understanding of form and medium. Foregrounding film...

..., and of porn studies' tendency to elide analysis of mainstream texts. Extensive industrial immersion (including interviews with thirty-eight filmmakers and industry insiders) and textual analysis illuminate industrial praxis to argue that the seemingly rigid conventions and taxonomies of mainstream adult video...

... of a synchronic analysis of affect and ontology. This article argues that the analysis of a particular passion, coalescing in a series of moments in a single star text, offers a way to reconcile these divergent theoretical models. Matt Tierney , PhD, is assistant professor of English at Penn State...

.... And so the designation of “screen test” engenders an identity for the film that situates its formal indeterminancy as its most critical feature. This analysis of Portrait of Jason necessarily examines the particular intersections of documentary cinema, gender/sexuality, spectatorship, and textual...

..., be attached to skin pigmentation but indicates instead the body's extension beyond itself into the social sphere. With a close analysis of a variety of visual texts, ranging from the shadow of a lynched body in a 1930s NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) photograph...

... such as cooperative writing, whose dynamics urge participants to create ever-higher expectations for the final product often before the process of creation has even started. This article's analysis of such economies surrounding online creative collaborations and its examination of the dialectics between literary...

...Shweta Kishore In her films, Paromita Vohra is the trickster, the bahurupiya who entertains, unsettles, and ultimately encourages the spectator to think, reflect, and reconsider. Always penetrating in her analysis, Vohra is interested in the ways power is exercised through history and discourse...

... in the queer games community. By combining scholarly analysis and fan perspectives, the LGBTQ Video Game Archive offers new possibilities for thinking about how the work of queer game studies is done. Bonnie Ruberg is a Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar in the Interactive Media and Games Division...

... investigates how Turkish sex films identify and discuss the social oppositions upon which desire is manufactured. It also engages these films’ repercussions, whether in terms of cinematic and social influence or how they affected moral codes regarding female sexuality. Moving from Alan Soble’s Marxist analysis...

...Nguyen Tan Hoang The essay examines a tropical manifestation of camp deployed by queer independent filmmakers in Thailand in response to virulent censorship measures. Through close analysis of performances and films produced between 2000 and 2010 by Michael Shaowanasai and Tanwarin Sukkhapisit...

...Melissa Bradshaw “Devouring the Diva” explores the drives that push us to pursue, consume, and destroy the diva, arguing for a reading of the diva as a figure of feminine gendering and as a stand-in for the fetishized mother whom we ambivalently adore, mourn, and hate. Through an analysis...

... suggest that these black women's behaviors are anything short of performative; neither does it condone their behavior as socially acceptable. However, the analysis rests on an understanding of the liminality of their performance of ratchetness as a means of ensuring a material wage and maintaining...

... explores Almodóvar's narrative style through a close analysis of the deployment of coincidence as a device in Talk to Her , a film structured by coincidental meetings and events. Tracing Almodóvar's treatment of coincidence allows us to evaluate and appreciate the classical echoes of his narrative...

... of these discussions and explore their interrelations, by looking at the film through a history and analysis of cinematic reflexivity. As a metacinematic work both by and about an African American lesbian director, the film has much to say about the means of its own production and, even further, about the way...